Difference between fundamental rights and directive …

Following are the main differences between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles:

1. Fundamental Rights are Justiciable, while Directive Principles are not Justiciable.
2. Fundamental Rights are mandatory, while Directive Principles are optional. It is mandatory for the government to enforce Fundamental Rights but Directive Principles are just optional.
3. Fundamental Rights are negative to prohibit the government from doing certain things. But Directive Principles are affirmative instructions to the government to do certain things.
4. Fundamental Rights are concerned with the individual, whereas Directive Principles concern the entire society in which the individual is but a component.
5. The aim of Fundamental Rights is Political democracy, but that of Directive Principles is Economic democracy.